"The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together."
— Germany

January 1, 1970

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Wilhelm II of Germany‎‎, speech (18 April 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158